... Anorexia nervosa Bulimia nervosa Nutritional rehabilitation Re-feeding syndrome Nasogastric tube feeding Key Messages Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by underweight (BMI <10th percentile), an intense fear of weight gain, body image distortions, and aberrant eating...

... Abstract Neuropsychological rehabilitation is one of the subspecialties of neuropsychology, along with neuropsychological assessment, cognitive process descriptions, and anatomo-functional correlation, but it is still frequently underrecognized, even from a historical point of view...

... and voice as well as a tailored rehabilitation programme including personalized exercise prescriptions and advices on nutrition and weight, allows for a decrease and preferably prevention of the late effects. Although the evidence is still at a suboptimal level, there is general consensus to integrate...

... Abstract Vestibular rehabilitation is an exercise-based program that has been in existence for over 70 years. A growing body of evidence supports the use of vestibular rehabilitation in patients with vestibular disorders, and evolving research has led to more efficacious interventions. Through...

... period of the auditory system. In conclusion, hearing rehabilitation of congenital atresia should be performed as early as possible. This includes not only the bilateral but also the unilateral affected patients. Introduction Malformations of the external ear, external auditory canal and middle...

... in improving their hearing. This chapter looks at the devices currently available, their indications and the literature regarding their outcomes. Introduction Hearing loss can be rehabilitated by different types of hearing aids. Conventional acoustic hearing aids (CHA) are most commonly used...

... as is EEG. It has greatly improved the spatial resolution over EEG and has better temporal resolution than PET. Advances in these imaging techniques provide an opportunity to develop rehabilitation or habilitation strategies that are individually optimized based on objective measures of brain function...

... of the hearing loss is often bilateral rather than unilateral. Decision making around hearing preservation or rehabilitation in patients with NF2 is complex. It must be balanced with the need for tumor control in the presence of an often aggressive disease and with the potential risk of a given intervention...

... Abstract Surgery aimed at hearing rehabilitation risks damaging residual inner ear function, especially cochlear implant surgery. Pharmacological intervention to reduce this risk has shown great promise in animal models. The challenge is to deliver medication to the appropriate part...

... and psychological rehabilitation. While existing data on the effectiveness of such treatment in patients with intracranial glioma are limited and inconsistent, it is possible to suggest that systematic and multidisciplinary rehabilitation plays a very important therapeutic role and leads to improvements...

... for the evaluation of facial paralysis to optimize the planning of each individual's treatment and discusses surgical and nonsurgical techniques for facial rehabilitation based on the contemporary literature. Introduction Facial paralysis is caused by a tumor invading the facial nerve along its course from...

... children with bilateral cataracts. Visual rehabilitation of children with unilateral cataract requires use of a contact lens or an intraocular lens (IOL) for the best result with a chance for binocularity. Only about 50% of eyes with unilateral infantile cataract will develop vision of better than 20/200...